On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:16:56AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > Apologies especially to Chris and Brian, for my tardiness in the follow > up to this post. > > I didn't reinstall the system.
Good. > What I did what was almost as "sledge hammer to crack a nut" though. > > I just removed all my "." [dot] directories and other than .xsessionrc, > rebooted the system and went on from there. I presume that fixed it. Its better than reinstalling, isn't it? ;) It still would have been nice to know what program's file was causing those "Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections" messages. > I hadn't manually made any changes, so the system made the changes > after an upgrade. But didn't correct itself after a couple more > upgrades. I'd just like to point out that "the system¹" doesn't touch the "." [dot] files/directories in your home directory on an upgrade. Each individual program might and a few of them definitely do, but you tend to get a warning. For example, I use feh, and after an upgrade, I kept getting messages about how the use of the .fehrc file had changed. ¹ If the upgrade of a package alters your "." [dot] file/directory it is a serious bug and should be reported el pronto! -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120606134606.GV8945@tal
